If the Norsefire regime, the BTN broadcasts, and the ever-watching Fate computer gripped you, Orwell’s 1984 will feel like staring into the same camera lens. You’ll recognize the fear that V exploits when he blows up the Old Bailey and hijacks the airwaves—here amplified into Big Brother’s telescreens, Newspeak, and the Thought Police. It’s that same suffocating apparatus V fights, laid bare in a chilling, intimate way.

Drawn to V’s theatrical bombings, his manipulations of Evey, and his ruthless campaign against Larkhill’s architects? Watchmen turns that moral tangle up a notch. From Rorschach’s absolutism to Ozymandias’s catastrophic ‘solution,’ Moore dissects the same hard question that hangs over V’s vendetta: what price is acceptable for a better world?

If you were hooked by the Chancellor’s iron grip, the secret deals behind Norsefire, and Inspector Finch’s patient, unnerving investigation, The Man in the High Castle offers a similarly anxious web of intrigue—only across an alternate, partitioned America. Rival authorities maneuver in the shadows, and like V’s broadcasts, a subversive text destabilizes the regime’s narrative.

V turns the Guy Fawkes mask, the Old Bailey explosion, and those falling dominoes into a language of uprising. In Fahrenheit 451, fire itself becomes a symbol—and, like V’s broadcast to the nation, a single act of defiance ripples outward. If Valerie’s letter moved you as a quiet spark that ignites Evey, Bradbury’s book lovers and their memorized texts will, too.

If V’s brutal vendetta, the room-of-imprisonment that remakes Evey, and the state’s dehumanizing methods fascinated you, A Clockwork Orange meets you in that same darkness. Alex’s ultraviolence and the government’s ‘cure’ echo the moral shockwaves of Larkhill and the regime’s conditioning—forcing you to weigh freedom against order, just as V demands.